Comments on: HOWTO – Cancel a Verizon EVDO Contract Without Paying

By: Successful Blog - Taken Over by Pirates

Successful Blog - Taken Over by Pirates — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:22:47 +0000

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By: Cuileann McKenzie » Archives » Verizon — Who’s doing the dumping?

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:24:31 +0000

[...] My husband’s friend and co-worker, Anton, wrote an excellent tongue-in-cheek article about his experience with Verizon. That ISP recently dropped him for using too much bandwidth. Hearing that is enough to make any blogger grumble, but Anton flips the story to put power back in the hands of subscribers. A great read! [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:28:57 +0000

Wow, that has to suck. I can understand their concern, but they have to state things like that more clearly in their TOS. And to say that flickr is the culprit, all I can say is, “wow, that sucks.”

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:41:28 +0000

I had no idea that I was breaking their terms of service. I’d read about people getting canceled for doing some of this stuff or running p2p but I was careful and kept it to a minimum.

Most of my bandwidth was chewed up on Flickr. I have a lot of contacts and look at a lot of photos and upload plenty myself. The rep I talked to hinted that Flickr might count as “file sharing” and violate the terms also.

By: Anton Olsen » Avoid Verizon’s EVDO Early Termination Fees

Anton Olsen » Avoid Verizon’s EVDO Early Termination Fees — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:35:18 +0000

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By: bullettime

bullettime — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:29:50 +0000

that is awesome! did you know this would happen before you tried it?